# CVE-2018-7956: Huawei VIP App is a mobile app for Malaysia customers that purchased P20 Series, Nova 3/3i and Mate 20.


- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 4 Dec 2018
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2cf4-p763-jjfp

## What is CVE-2018-7956?

CVE-2018-7956 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei VIP App, published on 4 Dec 2018. 

### Official description

Huawei VIP App is a mobile app for Malaysia customers that purchased P20 Series, Nova 3/3i and Mate 20. There is a vulnerability in versions before 4.0.5 that attackers can conduct bruteforce to the VIP App Web Services to get user information.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-7956?

It affects 4 products.


Products: Huawei Mate 20 Firmware, Huawei Nova 3 Firmware, Huawei Nova 3i Firmware, Huawei Vip App.

## How do I fix CVE-2018-7956?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-7956 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2018-7956 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-7956 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Huawei VIP App

- [CVE-2020-9113](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-9113/): Memory corruption in HUAWEI Mate 20 (high 8.0)
- [CVE-2019-5225](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-5225/): Memory corruption in P30, Mate 20, P30 Pro (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2020-1796](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-1796/): Missing authorization in HUAWEI Mate 20;HUAWEI Mate 30 Pro (medium 6.6)
- [CVE-2020-1787](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-1787/): Auth bypass in HUAWEI Mate 20 (medium 6.6)
- [CVE-2020-1840](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-1840/): Auth bypass in HUAWEI Mate 20 (medium 6.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2018-7956 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2018-7956 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei VIP App, published on 4 Dec 2018. 
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-7956 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Huawei VIP App. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-7956/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-7956/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7956
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7956
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-7956

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-7956/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.